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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living
In reply to the discussion: A property we bought has a water well which was abandoned by filling with bricks. [View all]NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)12. I love challenges... If these bricks are dry and fairly clean...
Something sticky at the end of a stick or end of a weight at the end of a rope might be able to pull up one brick at a time.
I fear, however, that at some point down there a couple bricks will be inextricably wedged in, so that even if you had 30 foot long arms, or a "brick vacuum", it wouldn't work.
Sad that they decided to toss bricks in there.
Good luck with it!
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A property we bought has a water well which was abandoned by filling with bricks. [View all]
mbperrin
Mar 2012
OP
Good that you are looking after it. We were walking around the garden in the snow when I was 4 when
applegrove
Mar 2012
#4
$7500 and a 4 month wait for a new well. This area is in year 3 of a horrific drought
mbperrin
Apr 2012
#7
How about some sort of tool grabber thing? It won't get you down 40 ft, but
uppityperson
Apr 2012
#15
We have received less than 3" of rain in the last 3 years. Statewide, 500 million trees have died.
mbperrin
Apr 2012
#27